It's in Dying to Self that we're born to eternal life...

In his prayer about being an instrument of peace, St. Francis mentions that "it is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life." Who has the time as a mother to think about death? Most days it was all I could do stay alive, stay sane and to still be standing at the end of the day. Sanctification - the act of making someone or something holy, or the process of setting apart for a sacred purpose - was not a word in my vocabulary until I became a mother. When I was “in